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The Impact of Regulatory Frameworks and Obligations on Telecommunication Market Developments

Authors:
Erik Massarczyk
Peter Winzer

Keywords: broadband development; market concentration; Hirschmann-Herfindahl-Index; broadband access speeds, prices and penetration.

Abstract:
Based on the rising numbers of broadband Internet users and the resulting higher importance of broadband infrastructures, previous analyses often focused on the relation between competitive market behavior and the development of customer broadband penetration rates. Additionally, some prognoses also consider the relation between the development of market concentration and customer prices. Taking into account the focus on both of these connections, the influence of competitive intensities, regulatory frameworks and the broadband development are rarely considered. Here, this paper will especially examine the interrelation between the development of market concentrations and regulatory frameworks on broadband access speeds and different customer prices and price models. Furthermore, impacts of the national regulatory frameworks are not considered in depth. Previous analyses have often examined the influence of regulatory behaviors and decisions on the development of market concentration. However, the impact of national regulatory frameworks on the other named factors is not considered in detail. Therefore, in this paper, we start addressing the named open issues. Due to the paper’s status as a work in progress, it will mostly indicate some theoretical background, literature, methodology and some first results of the competitive analysis. Despite increasing competition (based on Hirschmann-Herfindahl values), approximately half of the considered fixed broadband markets still demonstrate huge discrepancies between the incumbent and competitive network operators.

Pages: 56 to 64

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2017

Publication date: June 25, 2017

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2308-4030

ISBN: 978-1-61208-562-3

Location: Venice, Italy

Dates: from June 25, 2017 to June 29, 2017